IT Architectures and Middleware: Strategies for Building Large, Integrated Systems (Unisys Series) - Tapa blanda

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Chris Britton is an independent consultant, specializing in IT architecture. He has worked in IT for the last twenty-seven years doing a variety of jobs―programming, technical support, system software design, program management, technical consultancy, and even marketing. More recently he has been spending his time developing an IT modeling tool.

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The challenges of designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed enterprise systems are truly daunting. Written for all IT professionals,IT Architectures and Middleware will help you rise above the obscuring conflicts of new business objectives, new technologies, and vendor wars so that you can think clearly and productively about the challenges you face.

IT Architectures and Middleware focuses on the essential principles and priorities of system design and emphasizes the new requirements brought to the fore by the rise of e-commerce and distributed, integrated systems. It offers a concise overview of middleware technology alternatives and distributed systems. Numerous increasingly complex examples are incorporated throughout, and the book concludes with guidelines on the practice of IT architecture.

Specific topics covered include:

• Middleware technology, covering Distributed Transaction Processing, Message Queuing, CORBA, COM+ and EJB
• Key principles of distributed systems: resiliency, performance and scalability, security, and systems management
• Information access requirements and data consistency
• Creation of a new presentation layer for existing applications
• Application integration
• Component architectures

Once you get your mind around the concepts, principles, and alternatives discussed inIT Architectures and Middleware , you can proceed with greater confidence to design complex enterprise systems.